Is Google Search down?
google.com · Work & productivity · official status page
Google Search has recorded 100.0% uptime over the last 5 days, with no outage. It answers our checks in 127 ms on average.
No problems detected
Google Search answered our last automated check normally, 10 minutes ago. If it is not working for you, the problem is most likely local - Your connection, your DNS resolver, a cached page, or an extension.
Google Search problem reports in the last 24 hours
Counted in 15-minute buckets from reports submitted on this site. This is a user signal - A tall bar means people are complaining, not that our check failed.
No reports in the last 24 hours.
If Google Search is not working for you, tell us and the chart starts here.
Response time from our automated checks
The last 24 checks of https://www.google.com/ from our network. Bar height is the response time; the tallest bar is the slowest.
- Answered normally
- Slow to answer
- No usable answer
Having a problem with Google Search?
Tell us what is not working. Reports go straight onto the 24-hour chart above and help other people see a problem before any company admits to one. 0 reports in the last 24 hours.
About Google Search outages
Google Search is engineered for availability at a level few services match, and a true global outage is a once-in-several-years event. What people experience far more often is a partial failure: Images or Maps panels missing from results, autocomplete not responding, a specific country's edge having trouble, or the "We're sorry" page that appears when Google's abuse systems throttle a network.
That "unusual traffic from your computer network" interstitial is the single most common reason people believe Google is down. It is a rate limit applied to a shared IP address - A VPN exit node, a corporate NAT, or a compromised device on the same network - Not an outage. Google runs a Search Status Dashboard that reports ranking, indexing and serving incidents, and separately the Workspace dashboard for Gmail, Drive and Calendar. Search outages that do occur tend to resolve in minutes because traffic is shifted between regions automatically.
What to do if Google Search is not working for you
Is it them or you?
Our last check reached google.com normally, from a different network, resolver and route than yours. If it is broken for you, the fault is most likely local or too narrow for a single probe to see. Run the check again now to confirm.
The first thing worth trying
Check whether sign-in itself is the problem. If one product fails, it is that product. If you are being asked to sign in again everywhere, the identity layer is the fault and everything will return together.
How work & productivity services typically fail
The desktop app keeps working while the web version fails, or the reverse. Mail appears to send and sits in the outbox. Meeting links fail to join while the calendar entry is perfectly visible. The rest of the steps, and why this category breaks the way it does, are on our work & productivity status page, with more background in what downtime actually costs.
The link below unfurls into a live card showing the verdict, so whoever you send it to sees the evidence rather than your word for it.
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Google Search measured against its peers
How it compares with other work & productivity services
Over the last 30 days Google Search ranks 1 of 11 work & productivity services we monitor, measured on recorded uptime. The category averages 100.0%, and Google Search sits at 100.0%. That is the best record in the group.
On speed, Google Search answers our checks in about 127 ms against a category average of 422 ms - Faster than its peers. Response time is not availability, but a service drifting well above its own normal is often the first sign of trouble.
What the last 24 checks looked like
Across the most recent 24 checks, the quickest response was 90 ms and the slowest 177 ms, against a 30-day average of 127 ms. The chart above plots each one, so a widening spread is visible before it becomes an outage.
All figures are our own measurements, taken every 20 minutes from one network. What that can and cannot see is set out in the methodology, and every work & productivity service is listed on the category page.
The server that answered Mostly hidden
- IP address
- 142.251.156.119 and 15 others
- Server
- Hidden until you sign in
- Powered by
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- Content type
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- Declared size
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- Transport and HSTS
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Five more fields about the server behind google.com.
Free, one click with Google, and nothing is posted or shared. We ask because the lookups behind this cost us real requests to other people’s servers.
Read from our last sweep of google.com, not requested when you opened this page.
Certificate Mostly hidden
- Status
- Valid
- Issued to
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- Issued by
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- Valid from
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- Expires
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- Protocol and cipher
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Who issued it, what it covers and exactly when it expires.
Free, one click with Google, and nothing is posted or shared. We ask because the lookups behind this cost us real requests to other people’s servers.
An expired certificate stops browsers loading a site entirely while the server itself stays perfectly healthy, which is why we track it beside the uptime figure. Check it yourself.
Google Search status: Common questions
Is Google Search down right now?
Google Search is up and responding normally. This page is refreshed by an automated check that runs every 20 minutes from an independent network, and by reports from visitors.
Why can I not reach Google Search when you say it is up?
Because an outage can be partial. Our check runs from one network and asks for one page. Your problem may be regional, may affect only the mobile app, or may be local to your connection, DNS resolver or browser cache.
How reliable is Google Search?
Google Search has been reachable for 100.0% of the last 5 days we have measured, with 0 seconds of recorded downtime.
Does Google Search have an official status page?
Yes - Google Search publishes one at https://status.search.google.com/. It is the authoritative source for confirmed incidents, though official pages usually update after user reports have already peaked.
Google Search discussion
Useful comments say what broke, roughly where you are and roughly when it started - That is what turns a pile of complaints into something other people can act on. Links are shown as plain text and carry no SEO value, so there is nothing here worth spamming.